Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians as Sung by Jean Ritchie

With Forewords by Alan Lomax and Ron Pen Jean Ritchie is the best known and most respected singer of traditional ballads in the United States. The youngest daughter of one of the most famous American ballad-singing families, the Ritchie family of Perry County, Kentucky, Jean carries on her family's legacy as a singer of folk songs and traditional ballads. The music found here tells the story of the ""Singing Ritchie Family."" Built upon a foundation of balladry inherited from old-world Scotland,

Author: Jean Ritchie
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 03/06/1997
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 10.06h x 6.95w x 0.41d
ISBN: 9780813109275

About the Author
Pen, Ron: - Ron Pen, associate professor of music and director of the John Jacob Niles Center for American Music and the Appalachian Studies Program at the University of Kentucky, is the editor of The Ballad Book of John Jacob Niles and of Jean Ritchie's Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians.Ritchie, Jean: - Jean Ritchie continues to perform at folk festivals, to record, and to publish music.

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